Prior to implementing ICUTracker, VCMC’s ICU had instituted
best-practices protocols/bundles and was gathering
information daily. But their staff was drowning in mountains
of hand-gathered data without the time or resources to
analyze whether the many ‘improvements’ they had undertaken
were actually having a positive effect on our patient
outcomes. In their last quarters of the 2-year grant (ending
December 2009) VCMC, along with ICUTracker, have taken an
existing program to the next level and created a totally
automated data collection and analysis system for ICU.

According to VCMC, they, along with MAS, feel that they have
blazed a trail for other ICUs to follow and that this is
definitely the wave of the future in automated hospital data
collection – a necessary step that must eventually be faced
by all hospitals - not only to meet regulatory requirements
but to assure quality patient care.